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January 30, 2007
Tuesday Memories - Gentilly and Elysian Fields, 1938
Finding neat photos of New Orleans' past is an easy thing to do, but it's not often that a photo totally blows me away. This one did, because this is a corner that's I've spent a lot of time either standing on or driving through. This is a shot of Elysian Fields, at Gentilly Road, looking north towards the lake. That's the Hebrew Rest cemetery on the left, and a few houses that are long gone now, having been replaced with commercial buildings and Brother Martin High School.
Elysian Fields Avenue doesn't even exist yet as a paved street yet. Keep in mind that the main route out to the lake via Gentilly was Franklin Avenue. That's where the "Smokey Mary" excursion train ran, from downtown to Milneburg.
Posted by YatPundit at January 30, 2007 11:54 AM
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